Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Culture Yid Vid: Boogying With Bush in Jerusalem
The kids seem pretty focused on their dance routine — if only these two heads of state would stop getting in the way. It always seems like an odd juxtaposition when Shimon Peres meets pop music. Hat tip: Ami Eden (who links to some funny commentary from Keith Olbermann).
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News The John and Joe Show: Lieberman Campaigns for McCain, But Says He’s Not Interested in No. 2 Spot
John McCain and Joe Lieberman have been keeping close company since the Connecticut senator crossed the aisle to endorse his Republican Senate colleague’s presidential bid. Lieberman has been campaigning for McCain in New Hampshire, and today the bipartisan pair have a co-bylined opinion article in The Wall Street Journal arguing that the U.S. military surge…
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News N.Y. Sun: Obama’s Stance on Israel Should Be Welcomed, Not Attacked
The decidedly right-wing New York Sun — a fervent defender of Israel that’s hawkish on the Mideast and bearish on prospects for peace with the Palestinians — is defending Barack Obama from Republican charges that he’s weak when it comes to supporting Israel. The Sun’s editorialist writes: New York Republicans, according to an article in…
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Israel News Larry David Stumps for Obama
Hillary Clinton may have won a surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary, but Barack Obama still managed to beat her handily in the town of Hanover, home to Dartmouth College, where he had an assist from America’s favorite television misanthrope, Larry David. It seems the “Seinfeld” co-creator and star of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”…
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News Reading Ron Paul’s Old Newsletters: ’93 WTC Bombing a Mossad ‘Set-Up’?
The New Republic’s James Kirchik reads the political newsletters that Ron Paul was busy putting out in the decades before he became a national political figure. In the future presidential candidate’s newsletters Kirchik finds crazy conspiracy theories, hostility to blacks in general (and Martin Luther King Jr. in particular), anti-gay remarks and some unkind words…
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News Larry David Thinks Obama Would Make a Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good President
Barack Obama has a surly nebbish stumping in the Dartmouth College dorms for him — “Seinfeld” co-creator and star of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David. “Haven’t we had enough with Bushes and Clintons and Bushes,” David told students. “The country needs a shower, a good, long, hot shower. That’s what Obama is, a hot…
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Life Hezbollah Is ‘Hatikvah’ To Norman Finkelstein’s Ears
Anti-Israel firebrand turned academic-freedom martyr Norman Finkelstein recently paid a visit to his favorite Lebanese extremist group. The AP reports that the “Holocaust Industry” author and former DePaul University professor met with Hezbollah’s commander in south Lebanon and toured a village that was the scene of heavy fighting in the summer of 2006. “After the…
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Life Kristol Hearts Huckabee
Neocon chieftain and liberal bogeyman Bill Kristol made his debut as the newest New York Times columnist this weekend. His choice of inaugural topic? The great potential of candidate Huckabee — the same subject his fellow Weekly Standard hand turned Times Op Ed columnist David Brooks tackled months ago. Funny, I suggested just last week…
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